The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.
APC expenditures for 7 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact persons for the National Library are Camilla Lindelöw and Johan Fröberg.
Cost data
The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 1,052 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2 146 914€ and the average fee is 2 041€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- BTH Blekinge Institute of Technology
- Stockholm School of Economics
- University of Gothenburg
- Jönköping University
- Lund University
- Örebro University
- Uppsala University
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 312 | 546334 | 1751 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 290 | 612727 | 2113 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 32 | 53250 | 1664 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 31 | 93376 | 3012 |
| Elsevier BV | 28 | 53006 | 1893 |
| Informa UK Limited | 25 | 58711 | 2348 |
| BMJ | 23 | 44484 | 1934 |
| IEEE | 20 | 37121 | 1856 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 20 | 41919 | 2096 |
| Springer Nature | 20 | 67957 | 3398 |
| SAGE Publications | 19 | 24767 | 1304 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 15 | 26602 | 1773 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 15 | 25488 | 1699 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 12 | 16321 | 1360 |
| AAAS | 11 | 45085 | 4099 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 | 40752 | 3705 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 8 | 25104 | 3138 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 8 | 19368 | 2421 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 8 | 22819 | 2852 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 8 | 16726 | 2091 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 7 | 19512 | 2787 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 7 | 13537 | 1934 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 6 | 22721 | 3787 |
| Spandidos Publications | 6 | 10801 | 1800 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 5 | 6774 | 1355 |
| American Society of Hematology | 4 | 10370 | 2593 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 7498 | 2499 |
| BioScientifica | 3 | 5489 | 1830 |
| Bristol University Press | 3 | 5218 | 1739 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 3 | 2098 | 699 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 3 | 2939 | 980 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 3 | 4548 | 1516 |
| MyJove Corporation | 3 | 6868 | 2289 |
| The Company of Biologists | 3 | 7218 | 2406 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 2 | 2248 | 1124 |
| AME Publishing Company | 2 | 2675 | 1337 |
| American Astronomical Society | 2 | 3838 | 1919 |
| American Diabetes Association | 2 | 6584 | 3292 |
| American Physiological Society | 2 | 1829 | 914 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2 | 8511 | 4255 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 4876 | 2438 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 2 | 7792 | 3896 |
| Geological Society of America | 2 | 5907 | 2953 |
| Intellect | 2 | 2870 | 1435 |
| John Benjamins Publishing Company | 2 | 3690 | 1845 |
| Medical Journals Sweden AB | 2 | 3205 | 1602 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1335 | 668 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 2 | 4086 | 2043 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 6752 | 3376 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2337 | 2337 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 2158 | 2158 |
| American Society of Plant Taxonomists | 1 | 535 | 535 |
| American Vacuum Society | 1 | 2025 | 2025 |
| ASME International | 1 | 2564 | 2564 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 1 | 1647 | 1647 |
| California Digital Library (CDL) | 1 | 266 | 266 |
| CMA Impact Inc. | 1 | 1398 | 1398 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1242 | 1242 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 1554 | 1554 |
| Duke University Press | 1 | 1036 | 1036 |
| Edizioni Minerva Medica | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| Equinox Publishing | 1 | 1813 | 1813 |
| Esmon Publicidad | 1 | 934 | 934 |
| Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences | 1 | 464 | 464 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 1 | 3499 | 3499 |
| Gavin Publishers | 1 | 1458 | 1458 |
| Geological Society of London | 1 | 1313 | 1313 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2656 | 2656 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 2536 | 2536 |
| Human Kinetics | 1 | 2368 | 2368 |
| IGI Global | 1 | 940 | 940 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2981 | 2981 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 2506 | 2506 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2567 | 2567 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1712 | 1712 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 2210 | 2210 |
| Librello | 1 | 340 | 340 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3390 | 3390 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1696 | 1696 |
| PEETERS | 1 | 874 | 874 |
| Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc | 1 | 4603 | 4603 |
| Project Muse | 1 | 2783 | 2783 |
| Remedy Publications | 1 | 3699 | 3699 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 5549 | 5549 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 1 | 2315 | 2315 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 357 | 357 |
| SciRes Literature LLC | 1 | 2062 | 2062 |
| Society of Wood Science and Technology | 1 | 558 | 558 |
| Sodobna Pedagogika | 1 | 301 | 301 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 1 | 1594 | 1594 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1084 | 1084 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 477 | 477 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 1529 | 1529 |
| Uppsala Medical Society | 1 | 437 | 437 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 683 | 683 |
| Water Alternatives Association | 1 | 362 | 362 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
